Langer dons green jacket at Masters, Page 1B The Register Vol. 107 No. 245 YOUR HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER...SINCE 1878 MONDAY, APRIL 15. 1985 25 CENTS INSIDE New look signals better Register LOCAL Wait — don't put down that newspaper. The Register easier to read. The various As for the editorial page, we've renamed thorough daily roundup of important events You've got the right one. Its The Register, categories of news are easier to find. Front it "Opinion" and redesigned it to be more away from home. same as yesterday. to back, the newspaper is cleaner and better readable and to provide a broader spectrum The expansion of the comic page, by the Same, but different Very different. organized of viewpoints. We've even introduced a new way, required us to move several features What you see here is an all new Register As you can see, we've even added full syndicated editorial cartoonist, Pat to new locations in the paper. As a result, — from the name (we've dropped "Daily" color photographs to help make The Regis- Oliphant. whose penetrating, witty observa- you will now find the daily horoscope in the (ran our title to create a cleaner, more ter more attractive and fun to read. tions on current events have won him a Lifestyle section, the crossword puzzle on attractive nameplate), to the style of type We've expanded our comic page, adding Pulitzer Prize and coast-to-coast recog- the Entertainment page and the bridge we use for headlines, to the basic format of three new comic strips - Shoe, B.C. and nition. advice column on the first page of the our news presentation. Ug! - plus Doonesbury, which previously And we've repackaged our state, national classified section. appeared on the editorial page. Every page has been redesigned to make and world news to provide a concise but See REGISTER, Page 1A Graveyard obstructing developer ON TH£ MAD Mobile Intensive Care Unit provides paramedic services for 1! WAM MKER all of Monmouth County and part of Ocean County. The Register RED BANK - On the last large tract of 3A undeveloped woodland in the borough, an aban- doned graveyard has come to light. Ironically, it is the plan of a West Long Branch STATE developer to build 96 townhouses in the woods which has focused attention on the graveyard. New office The 40-bx 40-foot plot is at the southeast corner It may be time to create the office of of the 14 acres under contract from the Eisner Estate to Neptune Construction Co. Residents here lieutenant governor in New Jersey to and in Fair Haven, fearing traffic and drainage give the chief executive a sidekick. problems, are fighting the townhouses. 4A Now smothered in decaying leaves, wild rose and weed trees, the graveyard was the final resting place in the mid-lMOs of at least five members of WORLD the Chadwick family, who produced two captains for thrRevolutionary War and two captains for the Weekend battles Navesink steamboats. At least 10 people were killed in Along John Street, Oaklawn Drive and Harrison and Prospect avenues, those who know of its lighting in Sidon, Lebanon, pitting existence in the underbrush behind their backyards Christians against Moslems and THE REQISTER/QLEN E. ELLMAN say the last white marble marker disappeared OFF THEY GO — With helmets, highly tuned vehicles and BMX Race held yesterday afternoon at the Central Jersey Palestinians. Residents called it the more than a year ago. lots of ambition, dirt bike riders compete in the opening BMX track in Howell. most violent fighting since clashes See GRAVES, Page 2A began 17 days ago. M NATION Elderly couple sues Assistant prosecutor Heart implant Retired railroad engineer becomes former bank officer bids county farewell fifth person to receive a permanent artificial heart in an operation made money. A month later, the Schiffs other side of the aisle weren't more difficult because of his small •l USA R filed suit against the bank and * USA R. nrusf present, it wasn't because Kenney chest cavity. The Register Brown asking that the money be The Register was a retiring figure. Known for 5A Rabbi Hugo Schiff is old and frozen in trust until the case was FREEHOLD - He can slice up his gruff manner and explosive sick. He has difficulty remember- settled. a witness on the stand with his temperment, Kenney has tried ing conversations and events from Since that time, numerous af- sharp questions, and then, in the some of the county's most cel- one moment to the next. fidavits, motions, and counter- next breath, crack one of the worst ebrated cases, and, by his own YOUR TOWN motions have been filed. puns known to man. estimation, sent thousands of He survived imprisonment in a criminals to jail. College credits Nazi concentration camp, then What has emerged from the Assistant Prosecutor Alton D. immigrated to the United States court records are two vastly Kenney, the fourth man on the law "I am confrontational in my Monmouth College is gearing up for and settled in Washington, DC, different portraits of the same enforcement totem pole, left his courtroom style," Kenney ad- its summer session, which will begin where be was a rabbi. Over the man. Brown's employers charac- job Friday after 10 years with the mitted. "But that's a facet of my May 29. years, he managed to put aside terize him as a "schemer" who prosecutor's office. He served the personality, and I think, with the enough money to ensure a com- took advantage of a senile man, at last six years as director of the adversarial system, that that's an M fortable retirement for he and his times steadying the rabbi's trem- Trial Division. asset. But I suppose that over the wife. bling hands as he signed over the While it's not unusual for assis- years I have developed somewhat Now, at 9J, and recently de- gift checks. tant prosecutors to leave, Ken- of a reputation. SPORTS clared legally senile, some 9156,000 Brown, on the other hand, ney's departure marked more than "But I make no apologies for it. of Schiffs wealth is gone. claims the rabbi thought of him as just another attorney leaving for a I think it's served the people of Whether he gave it away or was a son and wanted to provide for more lucrative job. Monmouth County very well." bilked out of it by a man he trusted him. He said he accepted the E. JOSEPH BROWN Perhaps the best indication of Kenney tried the state's first as a son is the key issue in a checks, even though he knew it that was Kenney's swearing-out death penalty case — the state complicated civil suit pending was against bank policy, because unreturned phone calls or no ceremony, which was presided versus Joseph Hicks, and said it before Superior Court Judge he didn't want to offend the rabbi. comments. What has been learned over by Superior Court Judge had to be his most memorable Patrick J. McGann. One thing is certain: The rabbi about the pending litigation has Patrick J. McGann Jr. Seven case. Hicks, of Long Branch, was The central figure in the case is endorsed $156,542.50 in checks been taken directly from affidavits judges, including Superior Court convicted in 1963 of murdering E. Joseph Brown, Schiffs trust made out to cash and the checks and other court documents. Judge Alexander D. Lehrer, Ken- Joseph W. Cooper of Old Bridge officer at First Fidelity Bank, Red were later endorsed by either The Schiffs, who have lived at ney's former boss, crowded into during a drug transaction. The Bank. Schiff was fired from his Brown or his wife, Frances Ad- the Navesink House in Red Bank the jury box. The courtroom was jury, however, spared his life and bank post last year after bank donizio Brown. for the past IS years, have no packed with prosecutors, law sentenced him to life imprison- officers determined he had been Mrs. Joanna Schiff refused to children. clerks, and other courthouse per- ment. accepting "gift checks" from comment oh the case and refused It was Mrs. Schiffs brother, sonnel. "We were all trying to learn how Schiff for the previous two years. to let a reporter speak with her Willi Bodenheimer, 86, who first Defense attorneys, however, to do it," Kenney said. "The law According to affidavits filed in husband. notified the bank that something were noticeably absent. is based on precedent, and when court. Brown paid cash for a "I cannot think of it, I begin to was amiss last year. Bodenheimer "It's a good thing there aren't there's no precedent it's an excit- 1190,000 home on Briarwood Road cry," Mrs. Schiff said. "I cannot is the Schiffs' only living relative. any defendants present," observed ing challenge." in Fair Haven using money he discuss it further. It is a matter for As a result, in May 1984, the Superior Court Judge James Col- On the average, Kenney won received from Schiff. the judge." bank began an audit of the Schiffs' eman. "There wouldn't be any- more cases than he lost. But he The bank filed suit against Attempts to contact the four account. It discovered that 152 body here to represent them." had little difficulty remembering Brown in July 1984 to recover the attorneys in the case resulted in See COUPLE, Page 2A But if the attorneys from the See PROSECUTOR, Page 2A MU* SOfTMU Middletown South is on a winning streak, but there is a Tinton Falls family copes after fire surprise in the runnerup position.